Mar 24, 2011

Thursday's Notes

by Cliopatria

Carnivalesque LXXII, an early modern edition of the festival, goes up at Elizabeth Bowman's Contemporary Jacobean Society on Saturday 26 March. Send nominations of the best in early modern history blogging since 24 January to ebowman*at*niu*dot*edu or use the form.

Joseph Manning,"Beyond the Pharaohs," WSJ, 17 March, reviews Toby Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt.
Chris Wright,"Titas wuz here," Boston Globe, 20 March, reviews Claire Taylor and Jennifer Baird, eds., Ancient Graffiti in Context.

William Poole reviews Michael Hoskin's dual biography of the 18th/19th century astronomers, Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel for the THE, 17 March.
Simon West,"The beautiful unhappiness of Italy's great romantic," The Australian, 19 March, reviews Giacomo Leopardi's Canti, translated by Jonathan Galassi.

Michael Walzer,"The Wrong Intervention," Dissent, 21 March, lays out the case against military intervention in Libya.
Connor Foley,"Libya – the case for intervention," Crooked Timber, 22 March, and Foley,"Interventions – humanitarian or liberal?" CT, 23 March, lay out the case in favor of it. See also the lengthy discussion prompted by Foley's posts.

Finally, the Organization of American Historians Executive Board has adopted a set of standards and best practices for the employment of non-tenured and non-tenure track faculty. The statement comes in for praise and criticism on H-Adjunct.